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Aaltû aboriginal Alosaka American Amerind Anawita ancient animals ANTH Anthropology appears archeological basket believe birds Boas body Braunschw called Canary Catawba chief clan coast collection color corn Cushing dance earth Eskimo Ethnology expressed father feet figure flaking Frank Hamilton Cushing Franz Boas Fuji Guanches hand head Hopi implements Indians Inuit island kiva Kotka language Lanzarote LIVINGSTON FARRAND means mesa Mexico mounds Museum musical bow myth native natural Navaho New-fire ceremony noun object obsidian origin ornaments paper person phratry pipes plural prefix present primitive pronominal pueblo region remains represented rites river rooms ruins Sedna side society songs sounds specimens stone suffix symbols Tecpatl tion Tochtli Tonalamatl totem trap trecena tribes Tusayan valley verb village walls Walpi women words Xiuhtecuhtli Zuñi
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Page 13 - ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do : once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?
Page 13 - So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
Page 14 - I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?
Page 498 - HE was a man of middle stature, thin, and even frail, as he stood defined against the sky ; with the complexion of the student, and the student's aspect. The attentive droop of his shoulders and head, the straining of the buttoned coat across his chest, the air as of one who waited and listened, which distinguished his figure, detracted from the promise of other than contemplative energy, until his eyes were fairly seen and felt. That is, until the observer became aware that those soft and large...
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Page 14 - Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?" when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over. Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead: before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, "Oh...
Page 741 - The best book on this subject that has yet been published, . . . for the reason that, as a record of facts, it is unusually full, and because it is the first comprehensive work in which, discarding all the old and worn-out nostrums about the existence on this continent of an extinct civilization, we are brought face to face with conclusions that are based upon a careful comparison of architectural and other prehistoric remains with the arts and industries, the manners and customs of ' the only people,...
Page 13 - Oh dear ! Oh dear ! I shall be too late!" (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural) ; but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its...
Page 488 - A perpetual antagonism prevails throughout all he does; his instincts drive him to action, his theory to contemplation. Faith and discouragement alternate in his works, as they must in his soul. He weaves and unweaves his web, like Penelope : he preaches by turns life and nothingness ; he wearies out the powers of his readers, by continually carrying them from heaven to hell, from hell to heaven. Ardent, and almost menacing, upon the ground of ideas, he becomes timid and sceptical as soon as he is...
Page 641 - Indians taught them how to take them : which was, with great sprindges, which lifted up their feete from the ground : and the snare was made with a strong string, whereunto was fastened a knot of a cane, which ran close about the neck of the conie, because they should not gnaw the string.